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Essay on editing Wikipedia
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Civility isn't a sufficient standard. Wikipedians should treat each other with kindness, compassion, respect and understanding ? at all times.
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Wikipedia is built by a community.
We share a common goal: we want to create a high-quality, freely-accessible, freely-editable encyclopedia, in which all
notable
and
verifiable
human knowledge is contained. As a community, we work together towards that goal, inching ever closer day by day.
Assuming good faith
has long been a cornerstone of Wikipedia.
Requiring civility
is a similarly important policy. However, civility is insufficient to work together properly as a community. Civility is a baseline ? and, all too often, even that baseline is not sufficiently met ? but if we want the community to prosper, it is essential that we do not settle for just that baseline. Wikipedia itself deserves more than that, but more importantly, we deserve better than that.
Wikipedians should be excellent to one another.
This doesn't just mean avoiding calling one another names, or not shouting and swearing at each other, but it means ? as it says ? being
excellent
. Being a part of this community should be something that anyone can hold up as a thing to be proud of. Wikipedians should be
exemplar
in their interactions, both on and off Wikipedia, showing compassion, respect, and understanding. This means that
a good Wikipedian should always:
- Act in good faith
- Assume good faith on the part of people they interact with
- Treat others as they would like to be treated
- Accept, respond to, and learn from criticism
- Speak kindly, even when other people are not
- Be willing to explain their actions to others
- Understand that everyone has good days and bad days
- Admit when they are wrong
- Take a break if they feel that their ability to be compassionate is running thin
A good Wikipedian should never:
- Deliberately try to hurt others with their words or deeds
- Insult others, whether through edit summaries, talk pages, or any other means
- Discourage someone from constructively attempting to edit Wikipedia if they exhibit a willingness to learn and take on board criticism, even if
there are questions over their competence
- Attempt to shy away from criticism of their actions, or disregard it because of the person who communicated it
- Shame someone for their mistakes
If you've read through these lists thinking "I mean, yeah, that's basic civility" ? congratulations, you are probably already being excellent to your fellow editors. Continue doing the right thing!
If you've read through this and ended up thinking "All these snowflakes are ruining Wikipedia" ? you may wish to consider whether or not your behaviour might be part of the problem.
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- Adminitis
- Akin's Laws of Article Writing
- Alternatives to edit warring
- ANI flu
- Anti-Wikipedian
- Anti-Wikipedianism
- Articlecountitis
- Asshole John rule
- Assume bad faith
- Assume faith
- Assume good wraith
- Assume stupidity
- Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith
- Avoid using preview button
- Avoid using wikilinks
- Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
- Barnstaritis
- Before they were notable
- BOLD, revert, revert, revert
- Boston Tea Party
- Butterfly effect
- CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?
- Complete bollocks
- Counting forks
- Counting juntas
- Crap
- Don't stuff beans up your nose
- Don't-give-a-fuckism
- Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!
- Don't delete the main page
- Editcountitis
- Edits Per Day
- Editsummarisis
- Editing Under the Influence
- Embrace Stop Signs
- Emerson
- Fart
- Five Fs of Wikipedia
- Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake
- Go ahead, vandalize
- How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
- How to get away with UPE
- How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle
- How to vandalize correctly
- How to win a citation war
- Ignore all essays
- Ignore every single rule
- Is that even an essay?
- Mess with the templates
- My local pond
- Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them
- Legal vandalism
- List of jokes about Wikipedia
- LTTAUTMAOK
- No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
- No one cares about your garage band
- No one really cares
- No, really
- No sorcery threats
- Notability is not eternal
- Oops Defense
- Play the game
- Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you
- Please bite the newbies
- Please do not murder the newcomers
- Pledge of Tranquility
- R-e-s-p-e-c-t
- Requests for medication
- Requirements for adminship
- Rouge admin
- Rouge editor
- Sarcasm is really helpful
- Sausages for tasting
- The Night Before Wikimas
- The first rule of Wikipedia
- The Five Pillars of Untruth
- Things that should not be surprising
- The WikiBible
- Watchlistitis
- Wikipedia is an MMORPG
- WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
- What Wikipedia is not/Outtakes
- Why not create an account?
- Yes legal threats
- You don't have to be mad to work here, but
- You should not write meaningless lists
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